Timasitheus of Delphi

Timasitheus (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Τιμασίθεος) was an athlete of Delphi, who was victorious several times in the pankration at the Olympic and Pythian Games, and was also distinguished as a brave soldier.Citation
last = Elder
first = Edward
author-link =
contribution = Timasitheus (2)
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 3
pages = 1135-1136
publisher =
place = Boston
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3468.html ] He was one of the partisans of the Athenian archon Isagoras when the latter seized the Acropolis with the help of Cleomenes I. The citadel was besieged by the Athenians, and Timasitheus was one of those who fell into their hands, and was put to death. Pausanias mentions a statue of Timasitheus at Olympia, the work of Ageladas the Argive. [Herodotus, v. 72.] [Pausanias. "Description of Greece", vi. 8.]

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